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Physical and emotional well-being are top priorities for everyone. Join KUED as we explore a variety of health and wellness issues through our new community outreach initiative, Health Matters.

From Alzheimer's to the latest in DNA research, we will offer information you can use regarding your health. Local and national programming, community events and resource materials will offer you an opportunity to explore the many topics that affect your health.

Be more informed. The more informed you are, the better equipped you'll be to ask the right questions. Because your health matters.

 

 

 

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Tuesday, March 30th @ 9:00 pm on 7.1
Frontline The Quake
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was leveled by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history. Those responsible for handling the catastrophe, including the Haitian state and the United Nations, were crippled by the magnitude of the disaster... »
Tuesday, April 13th @ 9:00 pm on 7.1
Frontline Obama's Deal
Health care reform was the first big policy deal taken on by the Obama administration. Many say the young president has bet the mid-term elections, possibly his presidency, on the outcome. In a new investigation FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors at... »
Wednesday, April 14th @ 7:00 pm on 7.1
When Families Grieve
This program features several families coping with the death of a parent. This special, starring Katie Couric and the Sesame Street Muppets, performs a valuable service to families everywhere -- in both the military and the public at large -- by crea... »
Monday, April 19th @ 8:00 pm on 7.1
Earth Days: American Experience
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Barack Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not "Going Green?" "Earth Days" looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement -- from its post-war rumbling... »
Tuesday, April 20th @ 8:00 pm on 7.1
Independent Lens Dirt! The Movie
It's under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book "Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth," this program finds out how industrial farming, mining and urban develop... »

 


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Tuesday, March 2nd @ 11:00 pm on 7.1
Independent Lens The Eyes of Me
This program offers an up-close look at four teens that have lost their sight. It follows their struggles to fit in, prepare for college and live independently. This is an extraordinary peek into the world of blind teenagers where crossing an interse... »
Tuesday, January 12th @ 11:00 pm on 7.1
Independent Lens Young @ Heart/George and Rosemary
YOUNG @ HEART documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young@Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, whose average age is 81, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against... »
Monday, January 4th @ 8:00 pm on 7.1
This Emotional Life Family, Friends & Lovers
The first episode looks at the importance of relationships and why they are central to emotional well-being. What are the cognitive and neurological processes underpinning everyday interactions, and can they help us understand why some relationships... »
Monday, December 14th @ 8:00 pm on 7.1
Anatomy of a Pandemic
This program presents an examination of the overarching human dimension of a pandemic's impact on modern society and the science and history of these health crises, in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic. Ray Suarez, senior corresponde... »
Wednesday, November 11th @ 9:00 pm on 7.1
P.O.V. The Way We Get By
On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting nearly 800,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. This film is an intimate look at three of these greeters as they confront the u... »
Tuesday, November 10th @ 11:00 pm on 7.1
Independent Lens D Tour
Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful working rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, one of his kidneys starts to fail. Pat's choice to keep touring and working... »
Tuesday, November 3rd @ 9:00 pm on 7.1
Frontline The Medicated Child
With over four million children now on behavior modifying medications -- some starting as young as two years old -- FRONTLINE continues its investigation into the controversial practice of medicating kids. Are the drugs safe? How young can you detect... »
Friday, October 30th @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making U... Collateral Damage/Not Just A Paycheck
Mainlanders view the Pacific Islands as a paradise, but diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney diseases and tuberculosis are taking a toll on the Pacific Islander population. In the Marshall Islands and in the unlikely spot of Springdale, AR, this progr... »
Wednesday, October 28th @ 7:00 pm on 7.1
Botany of Desire
BOTANY OF DESIRE tells the story of four everyday plants and the way they have domesticated humankind by fulfilling our desires even as we've fulfilled the plants' desires. Based on Michael Pollan's book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of t... »
Friday, October 23rd @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making U... Bad Sugar/Place Matters
"Bad Sugar" travels to the O'odham Indian reservations of southern Arizona where residents are marked not just by poverty but with the dubious distinction of perhaps the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world. While public attention has been f... »

 


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